Oreste Scalzone

Oreste Scalzone (26 January 1947-) was an Italian Marxist intellectual and one of the founders of the Potere Operaio group during the "Years of Lead".

Biography
Oreste Scalzone was born in Terni, Umbria, Italy in 1947, and he took part in clashes with the police in 1968 after befriending Franco Piperno and joining the communist movement. In 1969, with Piperno and Toni Negri, Scalzone co-founded Potere Operaio, and he was arrested in 1979 for plotting armed attacks and planning to overthrow the government. In 1981, he fled to Denmark, and then to Paris, where he remained protected from extradition by Francois Mitterrand's policy of no extraditions. While in France, he worked towards a solution to the "Years of Lead" back in Italy, hoping towards the achievement of an amnesty.